On Jul 30, 2007, at 13:41, Landon Fuller wrote:
On Jul 29, 2007, at 17:21, Blair Zajac wrote:
On Jul 29, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Here's a message from the -users list just now:
On Jul 28, 2007, at 18:39, Chris Waterson wrote:
Hey, I had the same problem. It turns out I was using an older
version of Xtools (specifically, version 2.3). After upgrading
to Xtools 2.4.1, things worked fine. (The specific trouble,
which you can see if you get rid of the "-j2" option in the
makefile, is that they've changed some of the defines in the
header files that the boehm-gc needs.)
Problems caused by old Xcode versions are reported by users with
some regularity. I suppose we could add something to the FAQ, but
users don't always read the FAQ, and the first step of the first
section of the installation guide already reads: "Download and
install the latest version of Xcode Tools—do not install an older
version from the OS X 10.4 install disk or some ports may fail to
install."
We should not allow users to run into this problem. Can we please
modify MacPorts base to issue a fatal error and refuse to do
anything unless the latest Xcode (2.4.1 on 10.4.x, 1.5.x on
10.3.x) is installed? I think this would be a good idea. When new
versions of Xcode are released, we can update base as needed.
+1.
Tentative -1, simply because Xcode is a massive download. Most
things will build with an outdated version, I don't think it's
particularly nice to force people to download a gigabyte update if
they don't need and/or want to. Also, we shouldn't try to second
guess people who do know what they're doing with an "unsupported"
Xcode version.
Fine, then print a big honkin' warning. If MacPorts ever encounters
an error during the configure or build phase of a port, have it print
something like this at the end:
YOU ARE USING AN OUTDATED VERSION OF XCODE, AND THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED
THE PROBLEM YOU JUST ENCOUNTERED. Please go to http://
developer.apple.com/ and download and install the latest version of
Xcode. Then clean this port and try installing or upgrading it again.
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